An Anchor, when properly placed, holds a marine vessel securely in one location and keeps it from drifting away from the captain’s desired position. Under the teachings of the Holy Spirit of God, what in Hebrew is called the Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy), the Five books of Moses serve us as an Anchor to keep us from drifting away from God's good, acceptable and perfect will for our lives.(Romans 1:1-17; Romans 5:1-2; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-8; Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 8:1-13At the Anchor, we have come to the understanding, that the daily study of these books, along with the rest of the Scriptures, under the leadership of the Holy Spirit is the way God promised and systematically does place His Word (theoracles of God – see Romans 3:1) in our minds according to the covenant promise. As we go about practicing what He says for us to do, and not practicing what he says for us not to do, these same words become attached or grafted into our hearts. We discover that as we hear and practice doing what we hear [The shema of God - Mark 28:28:34, James 1:21-25), He becomes more and more pleased with what He does through us. Therefore to Him (יהוה) , LORD, YHVH, Yahveh, Jehovah be all the glory for the things He is doing.) As followers of Jesus the Christ (Hebrew – Yehshua Ha Mashiach), our desire is to regard the Law of God (the Torah) in the same way Jesus (Yeshua) did; when he was here. And learn to teach the same specific instructions that his disciples received from him. To continue to practice the same works that he taught them, until he returns. [I John 2:1-16] His disciples were commanded to go into all nations and make disciples.Jesus/Yeshua did not say go into all the nations and make Christians and build churches. Jesus/Yehshua said; "go and make Disciples, teaching them to do what so ever I have commanded you to do." (Mitzvot = "good works")

Devarim (Deuteronomy)re'eh12:1-16:17

Meaning

"behold"

Day One

21st day of 5th Month13 August 2017

Haftara

Isaiah 54:11-55:5

B'rit Hadashah

John15:1-17:26

Blessed art Thou, L-rd our G-dKing of the Universe, who has sanctifiedUs with Thy commandments, andCommanded us to study the Torah

Deuteronomy 12:1-28 (NASB) 1

1 "These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall carefully observe in the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess as long as you live on the earth. 2 "You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. 3 "You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and obliterate their name from that place. 4 "You shall not act like this toward the LORD your God. 5 "But you shall seek the LORD at the place which the LORD your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come. 6 "There you shall bring your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the contribution of your hand, your votive offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.7 "There also you and your households shall eat before the LORD your God, and rejoice in all your undertakings in which the LORD your God has blessed you. 8 "You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes; 9 for you have not as yet come to the resting place and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you. 10 "When you cross the Jordan and live in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in security, 11 then it shall come about that the place in which the LORD your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to the LORD. 12 "And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance with you. 13 "Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see, 14 but in the place which the LORD chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you. 15 "However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer. 16 "Only you shall not eat the blood; you are to pour it out on the ground like water. 17 "You are not allowed to eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, or the firstborn of your herd or flock, or any of your votive offerings which you vow, or your freewill offerings, or the contribution of your hand. 18 "But you shall eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God will choose, you and your son and daughter, and your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all your undertakings. 19 "Be careful that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land. 20 "When the LORD your God extends your border as He has promised you, and you say, 'I will eat meat,' because you desire to eat meat, then you may eat meat, whatever you desire. 21 "If the place which the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter of your herd and flock which the LORD has given you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates whatever you desire. 22 "Just as a gazelle or a deer is eaten, so you will eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat of it. 23 "Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh. 24 "You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the ground like water. 25 "You shall not eat it, so that it may be well with you and your sons after you, for you will be doing what is right in the sight of the LORD. 26 "Only your holy things which you may have and your votive offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses. 27 "And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the flesh. 28 "Be careful to listen to all these words which I command you, so that it may be well with you and your sons after you forever, for you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.

Last week we saw how Moses was still pleading with the second generation (and probably many of the children of the third were listening also) to pay meticulousattention to the God of their Fathers. I made a few references to the fact last week that the message Moses gave to Israel could possibly be the same message that we could take away with us as well. The main tenets of the message we see in the text this day would be:

Destroy EVERY place of pagan worship; including the idols and ALL that has to do with them. Verse 2-4

SEEK YAWEH at the central meeting place He established within your tribes! Everything that has to do with your sacrifices, offerings, are to be given ONLY within the central place and not as the heathen do worshiping ME willy nilly from “any place”! Verse13, 17

Do not eat the blood. Verse 16

Do not forget the Levite Verse 19

In verse eight and nine here is a very interesting statement: 8 "You shall not do at allwhat we are doingheretoday, everyman doing whatever is right in his own eyes 9 for you have not as yetcome to the restingplace and the inheritancewhich the LORD your God is giving you.” Does this indicate to us that even then Israel was not strictly adhering to the finer points of the Instruction of Yah? Doesn’t this remind you of what is going on everywhere in the so-called Christian countries of the world today? Every man is doing what is right “in their own eyes”! Even so many professing believers are doing what is right in their own eyes! Could this phrase “everyman doing whatever is right in his own eyes” be linked with the notion from the pit of hell that says “truth is relative—what’s wrong for one person isn’t wrong for another person”? There is a question to get your “leetle gray cells” vigorously vibrating! Time is getting short and our opportunities as believers are getting smaller than ever. My daughter, who is a registered nurse working in the neo-natal intensive care unit of a Toronto metropolitan hospital stated that the hospital recently merged with two other medical institutions and they can’t decide what they want to rename the merger—however: the crosses that indicated that these facilities were Christian were removed immediately. This is very telling! Stay prayed up and deep in the Word!

Blessed art thou, L-rd our G-d,King of the universe, who has chosenus from all peoples and given us thy Torah.Blessed art thou, O L-rd, Giver of the Torah.